Lupita Nyong'o Calls Out Grazia UK for Hair Photoshopping

She has a message for them.

Lupita Nyong'o just made an important point about how natural hair continues to be perceived in the media. The actress recently took to Twitter to express her opinions on her latest Grazia UK cover, which appeared to be Photoshopped without her input or prior knowledge. The final photo depicted Lupita with her shaved head, a style she's often rocked over the years. But, she also posted additional photos that showed what she really looked like during the shoot, revealing that her natural hair had been altered. In the original pictures, Lupita wore her hair pulled back into a low ponytail that was clearly visible — and also clearly missing in the Photoshopped version.

"Disappointed that @GraziaUK edited out & smoothed my hair to fit a more Eurocentric notion of what beautiful hair looks like. #dtmh," she Tweeted.

The hashtag follows another recent incident of a magazine Photoshopping a black woman's hair. Solange also wrote "dtmh" (don't touch my hair) when Evening Standard removed her braid halo from her cover photo, a rebuke of their erasure of black hair and perpetuation of restrictive beauty ideals. Celebrity hairstylist Lacy Redway noted the similarities between the two incidences on her Instagram stories. "Also happened to Solange less than two weeks ago," she wrote. "Silence is compliance. We can't continue to watch bad behavior happen infront of us just because we don't think it affects us directly."

Grazia UK has since issued a statement on their Twitter account. It reads: "Grazia is committed to representing diversity throughout its pages and apologises unreservedly to Lupita Nyong'o. Grazia magazine would like to make it clear that at no point did they make any editorial request to the photographer for Lupita Nyong'o's hair to be altered on this week's cover, nor did we alter it ourselves. But we apologise unreservedly for not upholding the highest of editorial standards in ensuring that we were aware of all alterations that had been made." However, many Twitter users seem to be dissatisfied with that apology and feel it avoids taking responsibility or addressing the deeper implications. See how social media is reacting below: